Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino

Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
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Established	December 1981
Location	Bandera 361 Santiago, Chile
Type	archaeology, anthropology pre-Columbian art museum
Director	Carlos Aldunate del Solar
Curator	José Berenguer Rodríguez
Public transit access	Metro station: Plaza de Armas
Website	www.precolombino.cl

photo taken in 1900 of the museum's building, the Palacio de la Real Aduana

The Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino (Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art) is an art museum dedicated to the study and display of pre-Columbian artworks and artefacts from Central and South America. The museum is located in the city centre of Santiago, the capital of Chile. The museum was founded by the prominent Chilean architect and antiquities collector Sergio Larraín García-Moreno, who had sought premises for the display and preservation of his private collection of pre-Columbian artefacts acquired over the course of nearly fifty years. With the support of Santiago's municipal government at the time, García-Moreno secured the building and established the museum's curatorial institution. The museum first opened in December 1981.

Items in the museum's collections are drawn from the major pre-Columbian culture areas of Mesoamerica, Intermediate / Isthmo-Colombian, Pan-Caribbean, Amazonia and the Andean (central and southern).

References

Solis, Felipe (1994). "La Costa del Golfo: el arte del centro de Veracruz y del mundo huasteco". In María Luisa Sabau García (ed.). México en el mundo de las colecciones de arte: Mesoamerica, vol. 1. Beatriz de la Fuente (Mesoamerican research coordinator), María Olga Sáenz González (project coordinator). México, D.F.: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas-UNAM, and Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. pp. 183–241. ISBN 968-6963-36-7. OCLC 33194574.  (Spanish)

External links

• Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, official website (Spanish) (English)

Coordinates: 33°26′20″S 70°39′08″W / 33.4389055556°S 70.6521694444°W / -33.4389055556; -70.6521694444